Saturday, April 4, 2009

With a few weeks of delay, due to the injury which kept him off the field during the first part of the season, Gigi Buffon is about to succeed in his objective: On Sunday during the match against Chievo, he will reach the 300 match played wearing the Juventus jersey.

This is a prestigious threshold, with which the goalkeeper at 31 years of age is confirming yet again his presence amongst the champions who wove Juventus’ story. Buffon will enter the prestigious “300 Club”, in 37th place after Alessandro Birindelli and Pavel Nedved, the last to have made it.

In the special table, led by Alessandro Del Piero, who is moving towards the 600th appearance (7 to go!), Buffon is obviously not the only goalkeeper. There are another 5 number ones. Dino Zoff leads with 476 before Tacconi, Combi, Anzolin and Peruzzi (who stopped at 301). Apart from numbers and standing Gigi has also the satisfaction just as he underlined on his official website www.gianluigibuffon.com.

"This threshold makes me proud. Making 300 appearances with the same team is not easy, especially if the team is Juventus, but this is also a sign of my consistency which I managed to achieve in these 8 years spent in Turin".